"What do you mean by this, my lord?" Sasaki asked in confusion, "We have already set foot on the territory of Meinong, how can the rich people of West Meinong sit idly by and ignore us?"
"We are here to fight the Saito family, not the Simino wealthy family." Oda Nobunaga sneered, "It's not like you don't know the relationship between the Simino wealthy family and the Saito family."
"Not only are we not here to attack Simeon." Oda Nobunaga raised his eyebrows, raised his right hand, and pointed straight in the direction of Simeon, "Instead, we are here to persuade the rich people of Simeon to join us in the siege.
From Inabayama Castle!”
As soon as Oda Nobunaga said this, everyone was shocked. The Nishimeno wealthy family and the Oda family have been fighting for almost decades. How could Oda Nobunaga suddenly have a whim and want to mobilize the military?
where are they?
"What, don't you believe it?" Oda Nobunaga chuckled twice, clapped his hands, and Takigawa Kazumasa stepped out of the queue, stepped forward and handed several secret letters to Oda Nobunaga. Oda Letter
The commander casually threw them into the middle of the hall, and said with a proud smile: "This is a communication letter between the wealthy families of Simenon intercepted by Yu's ninjas. Take a look at it for yourselves."
Those letters included almost most of the major wealthy families in Simeon. Some were written by the Ando family to the Inaba family, some were written by the Uji family and the Fubo family, etc. The meanings of the letters were roughly the same. The wealthy families had different opinions on each other.
The protracted war between Zhang and Mino was pessimistic. With the fall of Higashi Mino and the nail-like Sumamata Castle embedded in Nishi Mino, they felt that they would not be Owari's opponent anyway. In addition, from Owari
The trade between Zhang's merchants and them brought them huge income, which made them unwilling to continue the war situation, and discussed with each other whether they could seek a peaceful diplomatic relationship with Owari.
"If this is true, and if the wealthy family of Simeon has been shaken to this extent." After reading the letter, Sakuma Nobumori's eyes began to light up with excitement, "Then we can really consider sending someone to mobilize the West immediately.
Meinong is a wealthy family!"
"What His Highness Sakuma said is true." Sasaki Narimasa immediately agreed, "My lord is so wise and powerful! It's time to send someone to mobilize the wealthy people of Simino!"
After these two people spoke out, many people in the tent also stood up to support the suggestion of immediately sending people to mobilize the wealthy people of Nishi-Mino, praising Oda Nobunaga's wise and martial prowess.
"I don't think it's appropriate." However, among a group of echoes, an inappropriate voice sounded. Everyone looked around and saw that it was Shibata Katsuie sitting in the seat. As the oldest person in the Oda family,
First, he is fully qualified to pour cold water on everyone in public on such an occasion.
"My lord, I am a rough man. Please speak more directly. Please don't blame me." Shibata Katsuie bowed his hand to Oda Nobunaga, who smiled slightly and motioned for him to continue.
"I feel that it is not yet the time to mobilize the troops to take over Nishi Mino." Shibata Katsuie said angrily, "The strength of Nishi Mino has not been lost. If we go to take over Nishi Mino at this time, we will definitely be able to retain all the territory, and even gain more territory."
Then ask for other territories. In this way, when we conquered Mino, did we conquer it for the Oda family, or did we conquer it for their wealthy Nishi-Mino family?"
Shibata Katsuie's words suddenly silenced the originally lively tent. What he said did make sense. The Nishimeno wealthy family was already powerful and could compete with the Saito family. If the Oda family transferred Nishimei at this time,
Not only will the territory of the Nogo clan and the Simino rich clan not shrink, but they may also claim the territory of Central Mino. After that, if the Oda family attacks the Saito family, which has a bad relationship with the Simino rich clan, there will inevitably be some substitutes.
The wealthy families of Simeon are now willing to act as thugs. If the Saito family is destroyed, the bitter consequences that the wealthy families of Simeron will suffer will have to be tasted by the Oda family.
"So Gonroku, what you're saying is... we should beat up those stinky guys at Simeon first?" Oda Nobunaga raised his eyebrows, "Then force them to sign a castle alliance and reduce their territory?"
"Exactly." Shibata Katsuie nodded.
"That's right, I think so too!" This suggestion obviously appeals to the energetic guy Ikeda Tsuneaki, "If you don't give those old guys a good beating, won't their tails be raised to the sky in the future?
The same tactics that you used to treat the Saito family openly and secretly will be used on us!"
"I think it's okay." After Sakuma Nobumori thought for a moment, he immediately realized the significance of Shibata Katsuie's suggestion and changed his mind to support Shibata Katsuie.
Suddenly, the direction of the wind in the tent changed because of Shibata Katsuie's words. Everyone asked Oda Nobunaga to fight, and wanted to give Nishimino a good beating. As samurai who longed for merit and war, it was important for them to
That being said, there is no harm in having one more fight.
However, what makes Yu Qiuping a little confused is that Maeda Toshii has not yet spoken in agreement. A passionate warrior like him who thinks about fighting and making meritorious deeds every day has not spoken out to support this proposal?
"Brother, what's going on with you today?" Yu Qiuping, who was sitting next to Maeda Toshiya, asked in a low voice, "Isn't this proposal to your liking? Why don't you say something?"
"Um...that's it." Maeda Toshiie scratched his head after hearing this, and said in a low voice with some restraint: "I feel...My lord doesn't seem to support this suggestion very much. Look at my lord's expression." Maeda Toshiie secretly pointed as he spoke.
He pointed at Oda Nobunaga, who had a somewhat subtle look on his face, and whispered: "And because that old fat man Shibata changed everyone's opinions by himself, will my lord feel a little uncomfortable?"
Maeda Toshiie's words stunned Yu Qiuping - of course the thoughtful latter also noticed these problems, but he did not expect that his eldest brother, who had always been carefree, actually had such concerns.
"You are right, brother." Yu Qiuping patted Maeda Toshiya twice on the back, "It seems that Mrs. Song did not teach you in vain!"
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As expected, everyone gradually stopped talking after realizing that Oda Nobunaga had not expressed his position. When Oda Nobunaga saw this, he sneered and knocked on the table with the folding fan in his hand.
He said loudly: "Shout for a beating, why don't you go ahead and beat me up for Yu Shouting!"
As soon as Oda Nobunaga said this, the low-level generals and generals did not dare to speak. But Sakuma Nobumori relied on his seniority and whispered with some dissatisfaction: "My lord, please forgive me for being stupid, but I feel that
What His Highness Shibata said makes sense."
"It makes sense, it makes sense," Oda Nobunaga smiled sarcastically, "What sense does it make? Your point is to fight with the people you can win over. Maybe you can have tens of thousands of dan or more than a dozen left.
Wan Shi’s territory?”
After hearing Oda Nobunaga himself say what everyone was thinking, everyone turned their curious eyes to him, wanting to see how he planned to justify himself.
"To fight a war that could have been avoided, not to mention whether it can be won or not, how much time, manpower and material resources will be wasted?" Oda Nobunaga spread his hands and shouted to the retainers below: "
I have been spending more than ten years in this Wei Nong Kong, and I have been working with Saito Ryuuki, a young boy who is still young, for almost seven years! I have no energy to spend any more time in Wei Nong! Yu's eyes are on the world!"
"You short-sighted guys! Just look at the one-third of an acre of land in front of you!" Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly and continued to raise his voice: "If I only have the Owari Kingdom, these tens of thousands of koku of territory are of course important.
!But if Yu owns the territory of Ono's million koku, wouldn't one hundred thousand koku be less important? If I dominate Kinki and dominate the world, who will pay attention to this small tens of thousands koku! For
How can you imagine that such a small waste of territory will give you a great opportunity to seize the world?"
"Just yesterday, our Ashikaga General sent a letter to Yu, inviting Yu Shangluo to attack the traitor Matsu Nagahide." Oda Nobunaga said as he took out a letter from his arms and shook it in the direction of everyone.
Shake, "The Rokkaku family, the Matsunaga family, and the Miyoshi family made peace not long ago. The unfortunate general was driven away from the Rokkaku family and is now exiled to the Echizen Asakura family. This swordsman general thinks about regaining the shogunate every day
, I moved up and down day and night, but relying solely on the strength of the Asakura family, there was nothing I could do against the Miyoshi family and the Matsunaga family. So, I wrote a letter to find Yu."
"Your Highness wants to go to Luo for that swordsman general?" Sakuma Nobumori was shocked when he heard this, "Wouldn't that be like being used as a spearman?"
"It's not clear who is the human and who is the gun!" Oda Nobunaga smiled confidently, "But the name and opportunity of going to Luo are rare. We must quickly pack up Mino and prepare to go to Luo to conquer the world.
!Where is the time to waste time here?”
"Red leaves!" Oda Nobunaga waved his folding fan and pointed it in the direction of Yu Qiupei, "I heard that you brought Takenaka Shigeharu, that stinky guy who has been unwilling to serve in our Oda family, to Sumamata Castle?"
"Exactly." Yu Qiuping leaned over and said, "I brought him here just to persuade the West Meinong wealthy family to surrender."
"You still understand me!" Oda Nobunaga laughed twice with satisfaction, "Then send him as an envoy to take down Simeon!"
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On April 6, the 10th year of Eiroku (1567), Takenaka Shigeharu went to Nishi Mino as an envoy of the Oda family, and conveyed Oda Nobunaga's opinion to many wealthy families in Nishi Mino: requesting the wealthy people of Nishi Mino to break away from the Saito family and
The Oda family swore allegiance. In response, the Oda family would also grant territorial security to their territory to ensure that the original territory remained unchanged. Those wealthy Simino families who refused to surrender to the Oda family would have all their territories confiscated.
, handed over to the original Simenon wealthy family for division.
The wealthy Simino family, who were already very dissatisfied with the Saito family and disappointed with the prospect of war, immediately became more active after receiving such a guarantee. Since their own interests would not be damaged anyway, what was the difference between serving the Saito family and the Oda family?
Instead of fighting an endless war with the Oda family, it would be better to surrender to the Oda family to protect the territory.
At this time, the four small wealthy families of the Hara family, the Nonomura family, the Kato family and the Kawazu clan announced their surrender to the Oda family at the same time. Oda Nobunaga immediately and generously gave them their leader Anto. And Hara Nagayori,
Nonomura Yukinari, Kato Mitsuyasu, Hachisuka Koroku and others also served as hostages to the Yuqiu family, which was closely related to them.
With these four small wealthy families setting an example, the wealthy families of Simino no longer hesitated under the lobbying of Takenaka Shigeharu. With the three people from Simeron acting as a group, most of the wealthy families of Simeron pledged their allegiance to Oda Nobunaga.
book, announcing the rebellion from the Saito family. By April 15, the last few wealthy families who refused to surrender were wiped out by the coalition forces of Oda Nobunaga and Nishi Mino wealthy families, and Nishi Mino was completely pacified.
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Chapter completed!